[License-review] For Approval: License Zero Reciprocal Public License

[Bruce Perens]

I don't believe that the use of the OSD by reference works as you intend.
The OSD is not a software license, it's a specification of how licenses
should behave. Thus, it doesn't really require that source code must be
distributed at all, when you use it by reference, it simply requires that
your license allow source code redistribution (which it doesn't, because
there is no language to that effect).

If asked to testify, I would probably not be able to say this use of the
document made sense.

And OSI has not agreed to keep the OSD in its present form so that it can
serve as the text of your license.

Can you try being a bit less clever, and just write a stand-alone license
that doesn't reference the BSD license, doesn't reference the OSD, and says
what the licensee should do?

    Thanks

    Bruce
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